Shri Mataji: And there's no religion in which they have not talked about Self-realization.

[Guest guest]

" All such miracles have been here to show that these are Swayambhus.

But then people started making statues and started worshipping, then

making more statues and worshipping. As a result, there were

incarnations, other incarnations, as we think that Dattatreya, the

primordial master, took incarnations on this Earth and most of them,

then tried later on to say that we should not talk of the flower but

we should talk about the honey and we have to get to the honey.

 

So they started talking about the Ruh, about the all-pervading power,

about Brahmachaitanya, all of them practically talked like that. Not

in the beginning I would say, but later on when they found that the

people were just busy worshipping any stone, get from there, put

some — I mean they became just stone worshippers. So another kind of

religion just came in, which just said that we should believe in God

Almighty and we should just worship Him as an abstract god.

 

So, this abstraction also turned out to be futile because when you

talk about flower you worship the flower and when you talk about the

abstract, you just talk,. It's a talk, talk, talk, talk, talk. You

cannot get to the honey. So even if you talk of the honey what's the

use of talking about it? You have to have it. For that, we have to

become the bee and that is why it is important that you have to have

your Self Realization.

 

And in every religion whatsoever, even in Islam it is said you have

to become a wali. In Christianity it is said you have to be born

again. In Buddhism it is said you have to become Buddha, means you

should be knowledgeable. In Mahavira's things it is said you must get

your Self Realization. Lao Tse has said it. Just you should start

from Socrates onward. Of course, we should if forget about Plato and

these people because I don't think they had much sense of

spirituality.

 

But most of these people have talked about Self Realization. And

there's no religion in which they have not talked about Self

Realization. Even in the Judaism or when they believe in the coming

of the Saviour for their salvation, even they have talked about. So

it is all described in Koran. There's a complete Surah describing

about 'The Sent One', means the Avatar, means 'The Incarnation'. And

also said that you won't believe, you won't accept and all those

things.

 

So now, once you are realized souls, then only you start seeing that

all this talk is futile. You have to become a realized person. If you

get your realization, then only you can get over the superficial

illusions and you can go deep into it. All these illusions are there

in all the countries, in all the religions and that's why there is a

problem and we have seen people suffering from the pangs of

fundamentalism. "

 

Shri Mataji, 07/01/1990

Ganapatipule, India